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It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!

W. E. B. Du Bois

The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.
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Black Freedom Man Work
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Hard Land Men Poor Race
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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Inspirational Liberty Money Price
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.
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Human Justice Men Pain Progress
Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.
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Art Atmosphere Creation Influence Ourselves Try
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.
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Class Device Devil Diversity Innocent Justice Sin
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
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Children Difficult Feeling Frame Right
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin–the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
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Ability Clothes Determination Greatness Skin Wonderful World
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
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Future Independence Life Mom Right Work
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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Education Life Simplicity Teaching Thinking Work
When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message? The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty.
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Appearance Beautiful Men Thinking Vision Woman World
The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
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Atheist Color Intelligence Kind Men
Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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Earth White
I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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Black Devil Doubt Fire Race Sincere Woman
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
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Choice Disappointment Greatness Inspirational Life Possible Spirit

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